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Release Date:
January 1, 2007
Original Title:
Razvod po albanski
Alternate Titles:
Divórcio na Albânia
Válás albán módra
Развод по албански
Genres:
Documentary
Production Countries:
Bulgaria
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 66
When in 1961 Albania broke off its relations with the Soviet Union, Albanian men married to foreign women were forced to split up with their wives and drive them away. The official reason: fear of espionage. Thus a coercive mass expulsion of women and children started in Albania. Those, who did not obey, spent years in prisons. Families were torn apart for more than 30 years. Today these families are trying to reunite. Will they succeed? The film tells the stories of three of these couples, and of those apparatchiks and officers of the secret services who brought about their destruction.
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